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Gentian

Here is the story of a young Albanian boy, Gentian. His narration witnesses the true desire to live, the determination to overcome the obstacles, the joy for the existance and for the future to be planned.

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Launch of the European Year for combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.

On February 15 in Milan, at Opera Cardinal Ferrari Onlus (Via Giovanni Battista Boeri, 320) at 10, Minister Maurizio Sacconi has officially launched the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. During the event the Minister presented the Agenda to fight Poverty, which contains all the initiatives, measure and the programme against poverty.

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Combating social exclusion: the challenge is in the good practices. The President of the Institute for Social Affairs, Giulio Boscagli, for an effective, useful and accessible site.

“We must all achieve, facilitate and support a deep work for social and cultural compliance: a path of full inclusion of the person with disabilities that is considered as a whole and in relation with the environment. It means that by knowing and understanding the needs of people we must be able to offer adequate and fruitful answers. The site "Disability and social exclusion" has been created with these aims and with the ambitious goal to strenghten the fight for social exclusion of the people with disabilities.”

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Good Practices

The project is directed to differently abled people and to all those subjects that for many reasons are risking deviance and disadvantage: foreigners, poor people,roma people ecc. The choice of including in the different scheduled actions is due to the consideration that among difficulties a mutual help relationship can be created....Read all the good practice"Compagnia danza reggina"  
The service of the socio-health assistant was born in july 2004 on proposal of the Ministry of health, the Region of Lombardy Higher Health Institute The aim of the project is to catch espresse and not-expressed needs by the weaker elderly people which live in unconfortable areas of Milan metropolitan area areas. The action has been realized through a convention between ASL City of Milan, Municipality of Milan, ALER and Don Gnocchi Founfìdtaion, with the third sector support and of the local volunteering and with the new private societies contribute as promoter of Corporate Social Responsability....Read all the good practice"Social-health assistant and social assistant in Milano area"  
AMAT DEUS promotes the world of volunteering in a creative way, revealing its importance in social life. Born as a movie project, wher the starting plot is uploaded and changed during works by partecipants. Disabled, elederly people, artists, technician and known characters and musicians, contributed to bring in the story an original contribute to build a quality product and creative cooperation. ...Read all the good practice"AMAT DEUS"  

Agenda

Rome, March 24, 2011 Final Conference of the DSE project "Disability and Social Exclusion. Best Practices for Social Inclusion"   The final conference of the DSE (Disability and Social Exclusion) project will be held in Rome on...
Castel Sant Angelo, February 15, 2011 Conference: "Sport and disability: inclusion, which eliminates the gap”, Sport has many advantages both in terms of physical activity and also many positive effects from a psychological and...

Project

To overcome prejudices and stereotypes, to enhance experiences and best practices, to spread information through concrete initiatives on the territory in order to allow for a full participation of the people with disabilities. This is the goal of the project “Disability and Social Exclusion” (DSE) co-financed by the European Commission. Through territorial and communication plans, the programme aims at carrying out a real cultural change for the overcoming of discriminatory behaviours towards people with disabilities, that are still widespread in our country.

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